Tag: Israel. Palestine

TEL AVIV – Billionaire Sheldon Adelson made a surprise announcement at the 18th annual Birthright Israel gala on Sunday night by pledging a $70 million donation to the group in honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned a stalemate in the peace process between Israel and Palestinians is reaching the point of no return for a two-state solution. “The time has come for Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to read

TEL AVIV – A video of a child being bitten by a dog was posted on Facebook as an example of “Israeli terrorism” even though the footage was filmed in Algeria. See the video here. The video was published with a

TEL AVIV – With little fanfare and almost no one in the news media paying careful attention, this year marked a tectonic shift in the dynamics of the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Indeed, 2015 will become known as the year the highly-controlled Palestinian street largely moved beyond the geopolitics of territory and marched to the tune of religious extremism.

The Israeli government on Wednesday approved a plan worth several billion dollars to improve the economic situation of the Arab minority, officials said. Details on how the money will be spent were not immediately available. But a statement from Prime

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians who stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Sunday, the army said, the latest attack in 12 weeks of heightened violence. Almost daily Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks have

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh (pictured) refused to address the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Thursday, protesting the fact that the New York offices in which the meeting was to

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says its aircraft struck a Hamas target in the Gaza Strip in response to two shooting incidents. The statement says the aircraft hit a military post belonging to the Islamic militant group that rules

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday accused Israel of perpetrating “the worst kind of terrorism for the last 60 years,” noting that it was far more “barbaric” than the Paris terror attacks two weeks ago by Islamic State

Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union (EU) bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labelling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

TEL AVIV – An article published on CNN’s website featured a map ​that erased Israel and replaced it with “Palestina,” a Spanish or Portuguese translation of ​”​Palestine,​”​ the HonestReporting media watchdog revealed​.

BERLIN – Germany on Thursday strongly criticized Israel’s plans to push ahead with the building of hundreds of new settlements in East Jerusalem, saying it would undermine efforts to peacefully resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister